13 March 2023
John Luke
[email address]
[FYI request #21942 email]
Mālō e lelei John
RESPONSE TO AN OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
On 13 February 2023, you contacted the Ministry for Pacific Peoples (the Ministry) requesting under
the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), information relating to nominations received by the Ministry and
the Minister for Pacific Peoples. On 28 February 2023, you submit ed a subsequent request regarding
the Ministry’s regional networks and senior leadership team. I have outlined your specific requests and
my responses to each below.
•
May I ask during the past 3 years (2022,2021,2020), how many nominations during the "Call for
nominations" stage you have received, please separate the data by different issued occasion,
e.g. New Year and King’s Birthday.
•
When you submitted to the Minister’s office, how many nominations the Minister has agreed to
support and how many Minister declined.
The table below outlines the number of nominations the Ministry received during the “call for
nominations” stage, the number of nominations agreed to by the Minister and the number of
nominations declined. For nominations that are declined by the Minister, the Ministry may instead look
to nominate them for a future round.
Year
Occasion
Nominations
Nominations
Number of
received
agreed to by
nominations
Minister
declined
2020 New Year Honours
29
28
1
2020 Queen’s Birthday
11
11
0
Honours
2021 New Year Honours
15
14
1
2021 Queen’s Birthday
8
8
0
Honours
2022 New Year Honours
23
19
4
2022 Queen’s Birthday
21
20
1
Honours
Wel ington (National Office)
Auckland
Christchurch
Level 1, ASB House
9 Ronwood Ave, Manukau
Level 1, BNZ Centre
101-103 The Terrace
PO Box 97005
120 Hereford St
PO Box 833, Wellington 6140
South Auckland Mail Centre 2240
Private Bag 4741
Ph: 04 473 4493
Ph: 09 265 3200
Christchurch 8011
Fax: 04 473 4301
Fax: 09 265 3202
Fax: 03 353 9499
link to page 2
•
I noted, you referred to the "Regional Partnerships unit", please specify what does this mean, if
it is your internal team, please provide the full org chart of this Regional Partnerships unit team.
•
Can you specify what is your regional network? If it is a list of organization, can you please
provide name of these organizations. Also, Ministry’s senior leadership staff, can you please
provide who you consider as your senior leadership staff.
The Ministry’s Regional Partnerships unit is the Ministry’s community connections team that engages
and builds relationships with our Pacific communities and partner organisations across Aotearoa; the
‘regional networks’ you ask about are the relationships with Pacific communities and organisations that
our Regional Partnerships unit hold – there is no set list of organisations. You can find more information
about the Regional Partnerships unit on our website here:
www.mpp.govt.nz/about-us. I have appended
the organisation chart of the Regional Partnerships unit (refer Appendix One). The Ministry’s senior
leadership team is known as Tautua
1 and information about them can be found on our website here:
www.mpp.govt.nz/about-us/executive.
In line with standard OIA practice, the Ministry proactively publishes some of its responses to OIA
requests. As such, this letter may be published on the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ website. Your
personal details wil be removed, and the Ministry wil not publish any information that would identify
you or your organisation.
Should you wish to discuss this response with us, please feel free to contact the Ministry at:
[email address].
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you have the right, under section 28(3) of the OIA, to seek an
investigation and review by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available
at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Mālō ‘aupito
Mauailegalu Mathew So’otaga
Director – Ministerial Services
Office of the Secretary
1
Tautua is a word in Samoan that expresses the cultural tradition of service to the family or aiga. It can also
mean any service of an individual to a greater cause.
Wel ington (National Office)
Auckland
Christchurch
Level 1, ASB House
9 Ronwood Ave, Manukau
Level 1, BNZ Centre
101-103 The Terrace
PO Box 97005
120 Hereford St
PO Box 833, Wellington 6140
South Auckland Mail Centre 2240
Private Bag 4741
Ph: 04 473 4493
Ph: 09 265 3200
Christchurch 8011
Fax: 04 473 4301
Fax: 09 265 3202
Fax: 03 353 9499
APPENDIX ONE
